DanTheMan1999
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So here's the deal:
I want to become a psychiatrist. I completed community college for the first two years and then transferred to complete the last two (I took my sister's advice who attended a four-year college but regrets not completing her first two at a community college). I was a very ****ty high school student due to ADHD (for those of you who have it, you'll probably relate to not being able to read or do work without becoming easily distracted or wanting to do something else, for everyone else who doesn't have it, please continue reading), and it continued in my first semester of college where it is only semester that I got only 1 D and 3 C's. I was going to do nursing but decided **** it, I'm going to be a doctor.
However, I never got below a B- after that semester. I graduated CC with a 3.0 GPA and finished my 4-year degree with a 3.7 GPA (which I believe puts you in a good position should you apply for medical school) plus I did all my prerequisites. Unfortunately, I learned that my 4-year college did not enter my grades from CC and I was ineligible for honors because my "tentative calculation GPA" was 3.3, but this has put me in so much distress because I now wonder if medical schools will pay more attention to that and ignore my 3.7 GPA.
So my question is despite I finished my 4-year school with a 3.7 GPA, will it mean nothing to the medical school admission officers because if combined with my CC grades, it'll come down 4 points? What if I do well on the MCAT, can that help give me a shot at getting in? I do not want to go to a prestigious medical school, a regular one is sufficient for me.
I want to become a psychiatrist. I completed community college for the first two years and then transferred to complete the last two (I took my sister's advice who attended a four-year college but regrets not completing her first two at a community college). I was a very ****ty high school student due to ADHD (for those of you who have it, you'll probably relate to not being able to read or do work without becoming easily distracted or wanting to do something else, for everyone else who doesn't have it, please continue reading), and it continued in my first semester of college where it is only semester that I got only 1 D and 3 C's. I was going to do nursing but decided **** it, I'm going to be a doctor.
However, I never got below a B- after that semester. I graduated CC with a 3.0 GPA and finished my 4-year degree with a 3.7 GPA (which I believe puts you in a good position should you apply for medical school) plus I did all my prerequisites. Unfortunately, I learned that my 4-year college did not enter my grades from CC and I was ineligible for honors because my "tentative calculation GPA" was 3.3, but this has put me in so much distress because I now wonder if medical schools will pay more attention to that and ignore my 3.7 GPA.
So my question is despite I finished my 4-year school with a 3.7 GPA, will it mean nothing to the medical school admission officers because if combined with my CC grades, it'll come down 4 points? What if I do well on the MCAT, can that help give me a shot at getting in? I do not want to go to a prestigious medical school, a regular one is sufficient for me.